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In
@TWAILReview
,
@Sujith_Xavier
and I wrote about Tamil Muslim Palestinian solidarity, from one genocide to another
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2 self-immolations. A 45-day-old baby starved to death, younger than this genocide. A journalist pulled alive from rubble after 4 days. شهيد, as in martyr, as in witness. We are all witnesses. The reckoning w the self is at a cellular level. If we cannot be brave now, then when.
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"Your role in this government no longer serves you in this life or the next."
- from the open letter to Ahmed Hussen from his cousins:
Outside the AGO, Palestinian solidarity activists block
@HonAhmedHussen
from entering. Trudeau is expected soon to meet with the Italian PM. All entrances are blocked.
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across genocides committed by Sri Lanka and Israel, from Gaza to Mullivaikkal, what does transnational solidarity demand of us locally? what comes after the border?
next week,
@Sujith_Xavier
& i will think thru a conversation we've been having for years.
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When I was articling, I had the sickening realization that some people (including one of my supervisors) become refugee lawyers precisely so they can serve as border control.
The letter mentioned in this article from a group called "Lawyers for Secure Immigration" is awful, immigration lawyers just blatantly calling migrants from Gaza terrorists. Really shameful.
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this is a little belated but i'm delighted to share i've joined the wonderful team at Raven Law
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Free the People, Free the Land: Solidarity Across Indigenous, Palestinian, and Tamil Struggles
Looking forward to moderating this Toronto event with
@Megan_Scribe
and others on March 4.
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last night's Ordinary Notes launch was lovely. having only last month read Camera Lucida, i was especially struck by
@hystericalblkns
' infinitely superior re-readings of Barthes' notions of studium & punctum - an intimacy & depth absent from "his look. not a look or the look."
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ever-orienting myself (as student & as teacher) towards this framework has been v fulfilling, especially these last 6 mo. grateful for every kitchen table study circle, bookshop gathering, basement meal, protest speech & debrief convo on the commute home. lifelong study is a must
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looking fwd to hosting this w anupa tonight, ft.
@minlayla77
@thaqafatalhind
@tianareid
@sannareya
& nick.
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A conversation about the connections we share across different struggles & geographies, framed by perspectives from Sudan & Palestine. What does sovereignty look like?
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Tomorrow is Mullivaikkal, the 15th anniversary of the genocide of Tamils by Sri Lanka. Today, the Tamil Feminist Collective held a powerful teach-in at the Palestine solidarity encampment
@occupyuoft
.
In Rafah, as in Mullivaikkal, no easy words for the horror of No Fire Zones.
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a student asked me today for advice about going to law school, and i sent them
@apihtawikosisan
's evergreen essay: re-reading it now, it is as powerful and relevant as when i first read it 12 years ago.
"Property law is an obvious soul-destroyer."
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Thinking also of Wendy Trevino's evergreen reminder: "“writer” (like “worker” & most identities) is not a moral category & it isn’t a politics"
every writer removing themselves from consideration for potentially life & career-altering awards inspires me to refuse more, sacrifice more, insist upon more in the name of life. they are honoring palestinian life with conviction. may we all move with such clarity. 🇵🇸
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One amendment to the (already pretty bad) motion is that Canada will now "cease the FURTHER authorization and transfer of arms to Israel." This is less of a win than it may first appear, because we do not know what arms agreements are *already* in place.
By 204-117, Canada’s Parliament just voted for an end to military exports to Israel. Other key demands, including recognition of the State of Palestine, were dropped from the final watered-down motion. See CJPME’s full statement:
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In Canada, you can donate via e-transfer to diaspora
@darfurdiaspora
.org
Contribute to the Sudan Solidarity Fund!
Sudan Solidarity Collective, in partnership with Darfur Diaspora Association, is raising money for the Khartoum, Nyala & El Fasher Emergency Response Rooms.
Be in solidarity with the Sudanese people✊🏾DONATE & SHARE!
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one does not, in fact, need to read the new york times, at all, or ever.
in/around toronto, shoestring-budget progressive local outlets are doing the work of heroes:
@TheBreachMedia
@TheGrindTO
@readthemaple
@briarpatchmag
CBC has barred its journalists from sharing other outlets' coverage of Gaza on social media, despite not having their own reporter on the ground.
The policy appears to be a Palestine exception, as CBC's general policy allows sharing outside links.
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"... the Doctrine of Discovery, which for centuries has relied on papal bulls from the 1400s to justify stripping Indigenous peoples from their lands because they are not considered fully human. The Pope did not mention this in his apology, nor did he rescind these papal decrees"
The Roman Catholic Church owes us reparations and ongoing solidarity if they are serious about the apology delivered by the Pope,
@emilyjaneriddle
writes in a guest opinion.
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What's war got to do with it?
Zac
@Ras_Karya
and I wrote a primer for
@washingtonpost
on the leadup to the current political & economic crises in Sri Lanka
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"What did the trees do wrong? If I am to forgive you, will the trees do the same? Will the insects that used to live in the ground and feed on what was here forgive you?"
solidarity w the peoples of Sudan, who watch as the leaders of its genocide are welcomed by other countries
“What would you like us to do? Congratulate you? Or ask God to bless you for what you did to us? We are hungry and thirsty.”
“Are you even Sudanese? You are not Sudanese and have nothing to do with the Sudanese people. You will never be like them. All of the politicians are
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Next Monday.
Free the People, Free the Land: Solidarity Across Indigenous, Palestinian, and Tamil Struggles
Looking forward to moderating this Toronto event with
@Megan_Scribe
and others on March 4.
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looking fwd to hosting this w anupa.
we know our histories & futures are deeply interlinked. our incredible guests will share from texts that shape their thinking about sovereignty: what does it look like? how do we achieve it? & how do we trust each other across our struggles?
Toronto folks. This coming Monday evening November 13th. Please come out to Pamenar Cafe. This is a solidarity event for Palestine and Sudan.
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@sa7arla
@ELDV4Palestine
@HonAhmedHussen
jazakallah for your intervention! this letter is moving, bracing, and an inspiration. may we all show this kind of integrity when dealing with those amongst our friends, families, and communities who have traded in their consciences for power.
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always delighted to find the latest copy of
@TheFunambulist_
in my mail, and especially this issue: "The Land... From Settler Colonial Property to LANDBACK"
and loving the new format.
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yes, seeing this across diff struggles. saw this proven at the v full house for recent event on links across tamil, palestinian, & indigenous resistance. + attendees' courage in broaching topics that until v recently were considered too difficult to air
Contrary to some discourse, the movement for a Free Palestine has opened up more space in N. America for people to draw connections between struggles. Since October, more people hve wanted to learn about what is hpeng in
#Sudan
+ how N. American companies/states are complicit...
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It was a beautiful sunrise over the People's Circle for Palestine at the University of Toronto and it will be a beautiful sunset.
Encampment organizers
@occupyuoft
are asking supporters to come through - especially 7pm today and onwards. Bring a friend, bring some noise.
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@minlayla77
Ugh and the comment about El Fasher too. So wildly racist.
Also, talking about how he "snuck in" when in the same breath he says the organizers spotted him from the jump. Extreme loser energy.
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similarly, for many of us, this has deepened our analysis of sri lanka's 2009 genocide of tamil people, sharpened our allegiances. the transnational component of solidarity w palestinian liberation cannot be understated. these interconnections may be the only thing that save us.
@LalehKhalili
I keep thinking about this too. I’ve gained some new insights into the Jim Crow apartheid south, migration, lynching, racist massacres, and more seeing what Israel is doing. They’re bringing a lot of horrific variations of “the past” to the present for all to see.
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This also contextualizes why Trudeau has been vague re if Canada will abide by ICJ ruling, and why "Crown-Indigenous Affairs" Minister
@gary_srp
has ignored ceasefire calls from constituents and Tamil community, while mass graves are dug in Palestine and uncovered here in Canada
The US has yet to recognize its elimination of indigenous ppl as genocide. Germany has yet to recognize its campaign against the Herero Nama as genocide. The ICJ narrowly found that only the Srebenica massacre constituted genocide.
The final word on genocide is not a legal one.
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@sasa_ghada
Yes, the similarities are numerous and stark. My friend
@Sujith_Xavier
and I hosted a teach-in about some resonances a few weeks ago
across genocides committed by Sri Lanka and Israel, from Gaza to Mullivaikkal, what does transnational solidarity demand of us locally? what comes after the border?
next week,
@Sujith_Xavier
& i will think thru a conversation we've been having for years.
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"During the troubles," began my father slowly - I thought he was about to start talking about the war, because, like the Irish, in Tamil, we call it the parechina - "your mother told me not to go to mosque" - and I realized he was talking about the pandemic. Time collapses place.
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@KindaHagi
perhaps obvious, and perhaps not-not well known, but Inventory by Dionne Brand - written 2006, but glaringly apt now
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khaled beydoun's exploitation of the christchurch massacre was absolutely horrifying, and it is wildly distressing that he has continued to be platformed since then
+
one day after taking his shahada he’s already charging money for an “uncensored iftaar,” and teaming up with the guy who held a sweepstakes giveaway for a trip to the christchurch mosque only three weeks after the massacre there. nobody is surprised
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Relatedly: Sri Lanka has "signed an agreement, which will allow Israel to immediately hire 10,000 Sri Lankan farm workers."
Why farmworkers now? This genocide is about land.
Israel is importing African youth as indentured labour. Israel will pay Malawian workers $8/hour. Israel will claw back almost 50% of their monthly pay for 'debt,' 'air ticket debt,' 'housing allowance,' 'medical insurance.' It's debt bondage. Pure evil.
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Fantastic news for this project that took upwards of a year, spanning work by incarcerated writers across the Canada/US border, written through prison walls and phone calls. This issue is one of a kind. Read it in full here
@briarpatchmag
Congratulations to
@briarpatchmag
! "The Prison Abolition Issue" is nominated in the Issue Grand Prix category
#NMA22
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"it's a sad book," i told a friend about the novel today, regretful, bc this feels like an admission of a failure in craft.
"we need more sad books," he says suddenly, insistently, leaning across the rickety table between us. "maybe we could learn something from the sadness."
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did everyone else know this, that before Paul Robeson went into acting, he practised law? he got his law degree from Columbia in 1923.
i think often of how law is art and artifice, and how nearly all my favourite lawyers have left its practice.
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Dec 12, 3pm est: join us online for the launch event of the Prison Abolition issue, featuring recordings from and a live discussion with incarcerated writers
Our Prison Abolition Issue is online today!
We asked prisoners across Canada and the U.S. to reflect on the question, "Can you imagine a world without prisons?" This special issue features their responses, in writing and art. Here are their articles:
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The rush line for today's
@TinySheltersDoc
screening went down the block. Khaleel Seivwright is a hero. I still can't wrap my head around the cruelty, the evil of the City suing him for saving lives - lives it continues to endanger with blatant under-resourcing of social services
If you're in Toronto, I highly recommend checking out this documentary screening tomorrow!
It's about the carpenter who made tiny homes for unhoused people and was banned by the city for it:
#yyz
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+ this
@deanspade
classic: "The idea that people who want to make change will make the biggest impact by becoming lawyers and bringing precedent-setting lawsuits needs to be released in the face of what movement history reveals."
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@Afinetheorem
@minlayla77
1. "Does not let in media"? Untrue. Media is regularly at the camp. There is a whole area, w a huge sign, set aside just for media. Your faculty colleagues, as well UofT students & alumni, have done many in-person media interviews on site.
Yet you missed all that somehow. 🤨🤔
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@sasa_ghada
@Sujith_Xavier
On the topic of indigineity, I would also note the existence of the Veddas, who traditionally speak neither Tamil nor Sinhalese, largely live off the land, and have been extremely dispossessed
&
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Recurring reminders of not only what international human rights law cannot do (provide meaningful, substantive quality of life for regular people), but what it is in fact designed to do (obfuscate and provide cover for state violence)
- The agreement does not include a period of ceasefire; rather, it outlines both parties' "commitment" to following intl humanitarian & human rights laws.
- SAF & RSF have agreed not to use civilians as human shields, and to allow safe passage to evacuate.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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this is a powerful reflection. makes me think of monday's event, where we gathered to think abt the meaning of sovereignty in the context of Sudan & Palestine. as
@greatlakesqueer
says, "to think of our own name" is to think of the inter-connectedness of our self-determinations
A friend asked me to translate “Free Palestine” into Michif for an art piece. I told them “Palestine ka-tipeyimishowak.” It means “Palestine will be free” but notice the similarity to the Cree name often used for Métis people, otipeyimisiwak. We call ourselves “the free people”,
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revisiting this thread, as i keep seeing ppl hail the "citizens" who pushed the trucker convoy out of ottawa. in fact, the counter-protestors included ppl who are very much not citizens, ppl who are under threat of deportation, who came out and put their bodies on the line anyway
Interesting how I become a “Canadian” or “Canadian poet” when I have a book out and not when I was working minimum wage at Starbucks trying to get my visa renewed. anyway I’m not Canadian thank you!
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"violence—whether threatened or implied—is one means through which law acts in the world. Violence is not aberrant, but central to law. It is not exceptional, but quotidian. Violence is not only a product of power, but also its vector." - N Blomley (2003)
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100+ Palestinian journos have been killed, countless more reporting in the wake of the massacres of their families ...
At a recent talk, Nadia Shammas pointed out that there are ppl building careers off this genocide. Every day, I see new eg of it. Vultures, grifters, compradors
The last two days has seen some of the finest remote conflict reporting I’ve ever seen. Kudos to the visual investigations teams from the
@washingtonpost
,
@nytimes
, and
@cnn
stories on
#Gaza
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"colleague" to academics is what "my friend" is to opposing counsel
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@SarahJama_
@McMasterU
Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals - everyone's go-to suggestion, of course, and with such good reason
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evergreen: Glissant's reminder of the dangers of the liberal push towards legibility - which is to say, the pressure to reduce ourselves (and in particular our deaths) into something consumable by the voyeur.
here is Glissant in "Relations of Poetics (trans. Betsy Wing)
I’m stuck with Glissant insisting we have a right to not be seen: that insistence on seeing is a “transparency aimed at ‘grasping,’” which is a “gesture of enclosure.” What of the right of marginalized people to not be seen in this indignity but nevertheless recipients of care?
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@Afinetheorem
@minlayla77
2. You were ignorant of the packed Sudan-related teach-ins, demos, fundraisers & more that have been organized by Sudanese, Palestinians & others, right here in Toronto.
Yet you attempt to shame 2 random ppl for allegedly not knowing about El Fasher 🤔🤨
@minlayla77
Glad to hear there are folks there working on Sudan. I will say that the group I talked to had no idea at all what was going on. Prefer not to argue on that, so I'll just say I hope that things improve in Sudan and for anyone you know who's affected - it's a tragedy.
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Guest lectured today in
@nimmideviarchy
's Columbia class on gender, genocide, the war on terror, and criminal law approaches to domestic and sexual violence. Frankly, it feels like 20 years of the same conversation over & over.
Difficult topics, sunny day.
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saw a frog while in Muskoka and am overcome by an urge to re-read The Wind in the Willows. which, as my sister reminds me, starts off cozy and ends up criminal. chef's kiss.
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Next week, Toronto, in person, come through. These books are important contributions to political literature. What can we learn about violence, statehood (established or embattled), and dissent from the lives of rebel women combatants
We start w/a book launch of Tamil writers,
including a conversation on Radicalizing Her and In The Shadow of the Sword (translated by Nedra Rodrigo) moderated by
@ficader
.
All events are free w/registration.
If you're in Toronto do join us, and share
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I need to talk about living room
because I need to talk about home
I was born a Black woman
and now
I am become a Palestinian
against the relentless laughter of evil
there is less and less living room
and where are my loved ones?
It is time to make our way home.
Bright side: we got her at the encampment for the afternoon, reading the powerful words of the great June Jordan
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"Scotiabank, the main sponsor of this festival, is one of the major financiers of TC Energy [the films is re Wet'suwet'en pipeline resistance]. Scotiabank is also the largest foreign shareholder in Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturer"
all our struggles are connected.
The directors of Yintah call out
@hotdocs
sponsor at their Canadian premiere:
"While we are grateful for the opportunity to show this film, we refuse to allow this venue to whitewash Scotiabank's reputation at home and abroad."
#Hotdocs24
#NoArmsintheArts
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"My work is about cages, about enclosure, being enveloped. I think of the 'cage' as a political object. The cage is however a visual object. My idea is a visual object - it is not an idea. It is like saying my idea is a 'line.'"
- Denyse Thomasos
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That clip of Wael & his eyes, that photo of the young man in a muzzle & his eyes, that clip of the standing ovation at Mother Emanuel AME & Biden's raised hand ... I think of myself as jaded, but this is an unrelenting scroll thru cruelty, and it is breaking something inside me.
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"No bullet, no sword, nor anything formed,
nothing short of a category 4 storm,
Could ever kill an Indian that’s immortal,
If apocalypse hit today, I’ll be alive tomorrow,
I’ll out-live Love, I’ll out-live sorrow,
Might die before God, but never the devil"
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"You just have to decide what you’re willing to miss. And missing all that has given me so many other opportunities to share, to communicate, and to think with people outside of those institutional spaces. So I’m willing to miss it."
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"in states like Texas, where incarcerated people aren’t paid for their labor, a $25 prize for honorable mention can be a windfall. And even in states where incarcerated people are compensated for their work, $25 can be more than a month’s worth of pay"
@PENamerica
We personally know incarcerated writers who have not been paid by
@PENamerica
, who have had to track down money from PEN, and have been harmed by its poorly-supervised “support” system. Please read this important piece published by
@prismreports
:
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@thaqafatalhind
we encourage you to support these Sudanese and Palestinian efforts:
- Darfur Diaspora Fund, noting “Sudan Solidarity Fund," via etransfer to diaspora
@darfurdiaspora
.org,
- ROM Mystery, via paypal: romystery2023
@gmail
.com,
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International creditors have long funded the Rajapaksa's national security campaigns, in keeping with the West's own fixation with wars on "terror," while profiting off the resultant debts that have now made starvation and medical shortages rampant throughout the isand.
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"Wein baba?" For a second, I thought she was would point at him, even tho I knew she wouldn't. Instead, "mait."
Hard to reconcile how tonally this sounds like a regular adult-toddler convo & how much it is not.
Where's baba? Dead. ... Where did he go? Heaven.
Ya rabb.
Wael Aldahdouh lost his entire family a little over a month and a half ago, and here he is comforting a child who also just lost her entire family in an airstrike.
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What a beautiful night. 100s gathered w us to learn, mourn, resist.
Reminder to support these Sud & Pal efforts:
Darfur Diaspora Fund, noting “Sudan Solidarity Fund," etransfer: diaspora
@darfurdiaspora
.org
ROM Mystery, paypal: romystery2023
@gmail
.com,
looking fwd to hosting this w anupa tonight, ft.
@minlayla77
@thaqafatalhind
@tianareid
@sannareya
& nick.
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A conversation about the connections we share across different struggles & geographies, framed by perspectives from Sudan & Palestine. What does sovereignty look like?
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"I thought of writing—mine and others’—in terms of possibilities, in hopes of collaboration, rather than meeting or not meeting some nebulous idea of perfection."
Can confirm that
@AMrjoian575
brings the same care he shows in this essay to his practices as editor and instructor
I have a feature and interview up at
@ChicagoRevBooks
today! Both are on the homepage, but sharing this essay about editorial imposter syndrome and asking myself lots of questions.
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Looking forward to moderating this event with
@JasmineSealy
and
@DaveAlexRoberts
celebrating their new novels at
@festofauthors
. We'll be discussing family bonds, secret legacies, and sacrifice. This Sun, Sept 25, 530pm at
@HarbourfrontTO
. Tickets here:
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i have a few good valentines stories, but my fave is that vday marks the anniversary of my first ever appearance at the labour board, a mediation-hearing where both my key witness & i showed up (i had neglected to check my outfit against the calendar) in fire hydrant-red blazers
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happy birthday, james baldwin. rest in power, rest in beauty.
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive."
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broadly related, i've been thinking abt how little coverage there has been re Toronto Western Hospital being on the verge of shutting down its ER for lack of staff
we are setting the stage, via preventable catastrophes, for the privatization of healthcare
Covid led hospital strain meant that hospitals increasingly had to decide whose lives were worth saving - over the late 20th century “ethicists” have become an institutionalized part of denying care
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the violence & cruelty that the Toronto Police Services unleashed in 2021 on homeless people, the Encampment Support Network, and supporters shapes even now our solidarity with
@occupyuoft
& local Palestinian resistance
all our struggles are connected.
Like our tents pitched in parks and underpasses, the encampment at
@UofT
embodies strength in the face of oppression and displacement. We stand against its eviction as we stand against the eviction of all encampments across this city.
#CeasefireNotGenocide
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Every war, every genocide, every so-called "ethnic conflict" the world over is, ultimately, about land theft.
Here,
@minlayla77
explains how this applies in Sudan, in this short and incisive interview on the 1 year anniversary of the formal start of the current war.
"The Sudanese state in its current form, as led by elites from the centre and north, has always been ethno-nationalist, and violent and extractive" -
@minlayla77
on how the history of violence in
#Sudan
feeds into the war. LISTEN here (after 27'20)
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looking fwd to chatting w
@zaintkhalid
tomorrow tues about his critically-acclaimed novel Brother Alive. following a motley muslim family as they move between staten island & saudi, on a journey inscribed by love, grief, & a new kind of war
@torontolibrary
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with Marc Garneau high school, my alma mater, in the news, i am thinking of my friend and comrade Zabia Afzal, who helped run an after-school political ed program for students in the area. here she is, in her own words. may her memory forever be a beacon.
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"The material support of the West had to have been disfiguring for a writer whose multifaceted identities and national fealties had served as a foundation for a contrarian politics and a radical literary style."
this
@zaintkhalid
essay is the banger we've been waiting for.
In our first preview essay from Issue Nine,
@zaintkhalid
reviews Salman Rushdie’s new novel, Victory City, in the context of his career before, and after, the fatwa.
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Guest lectured at U of Toronto law school today on race & law. Shared this footage - "I can't breathe" is a cry with heavy echoes.
Also shared other footage of army tanks now on Wet’suewet’en territories, to the room's shock.
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Tomorrow (Friday)!
We start w/a book launch of Tamil writers,
including a conversation on Radicalizing Her and In The Shadow of the Sword (translated by Nedra Rodrigo) moderated by
@ficader
.
All events are free w/registration.
If you're in Toronto do join us, and share
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i have been watching these deputations and they are heartrending. rest in peace, ezra. you leave so much love and courage in your wake.
at minimum, the ttc footage must be released to their family.
I'm tuned into live delegations at the TTC board meeting where delegations are just starting, asking for TTC footage of Ezra Amos to be released to the family, given an altercation with officers occured shortly before their death.
Watch here
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You can see the revisions clearly and in full here: (the changes - to this *non binding* motion - go far beyond the removal of the recognition of the state of Palestine)
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Looking forward to keynoting at this today alongside deeply inspiring youth organizers.
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"Once Palestine is liberated, they will teach us how to liberate Tamil Eelam," they repeated the Tamil refrain from the 80s.
Two birds joined us, settling onto the tarp amid our intergenerational multiracial audience. "What is the idea of solidarity?"
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"because otherwise," he says, now fired up out of his jetlag fatigue, "there's all this indifference .... or ignorance."
writing as a practice of study, for the writer first and foremost and forever.
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We gathered under under a greying sky, while a surveillance helicopter buzzed overhead. "The police and the state study the interconnected nature of our struggles," noted one speaker.
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Important intervention by Scarborough 4 Palestine: "As Tamil people, we understand a genocide. We know the pain of losing our loved ones ... the same thing that happened in Mullivaikkal is repeating itself right now."
Tamil youth in Scarborough contacted
@gary_srp
for a meeting after collecting 300 signatures from their community, and he ignored them. You don't get to comfortably do your job while enabling apartheid and genocide. Hope
@McKelvieTO
took notes after shamefully interrupting them.
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been a harrowing few days, but am so relieved my dear friend
@minlayla77
& her loved ones are finally safe. i'm also reflecting on the moving, beautiful stories of everyday care, solidarity, mutual aid she has shared along the way. people organizing in the face of immense danger.
We managed to safely leave where we were. As we were packing up two young brothers were carrying large containers of water to distribute, they were ready to drop them all to help us load. On the road everyone insisting we break fast with them. Our people are amazing!
#Sudan
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I often think about how
@progresstoronto
endorsed Chris Moise, a former cop, as the "progressive" choice for the Toronto Centre riding, and despite the concrete harm he has done to the public good since then, they have not (afaik) recanted that endorsement
Love how this guy, Sean Meager from The Change Lab (a UofT-based research & policy analysis lab seeking to support marginalized people) DESTROYS Chris Moise's attempts
at leading questions in support of an increased police budget.
#TOpoli
#BudgetTO
#TPSIsHarm
#DefundTPS
#Toronto
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Lots to underline in Rehearsals, including this from
@policingblack
: "Anti-Black logics are not challenged by the presumed usefulness of Black people's labour: our usefulness does not contradict our disposability. This is what it means to exist in the afterlife of the commodity."
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And an increasingly deliberate orientation away from state recognition, away from the chokehold of politicians and respectability. Instead, the quiet shoring up of care and strength and accountability within that nebulous thing called "community."
من المية للمية
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so much of writing this novel is spending hrs, sometimes days, on research in order to draft a single sentence or maybe a para. a lot of that research is heavy, stuff of nightmare.
but today's reading was this fun little history of Colombo's Red Mosque
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Special thanks to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,
@williamcson
, &
@Yellowhead_
, whose insights guided my sections. Unending thanks also to Scarborough 4 Palestine, Tamils 4 Palestine,
@LAATCanada
, &
@WBWCanada
for their essential organizing and direct actions, which I describe here
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@jobitek
@ztsamudzi
@brownisthecolor
co-signing. i often assign mix of theory/legal with poetic/creative, because the latter allows a more intimate (arguably more ethical) entry into material that is often otherwise rendered artificially dry, which re-inscribes the violence (be it of the incident or its depiction)
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"He smells of smoke, of the sulfur from rockets"
I've been thinking a lot about this video, about this baby's hand wrapped around his thumb.
Palestinian journalist Mumem Qraiqea, who lost both his legs during Israel's 2008 war on Gaza, hugs & tries to calm down a baby, who was pulled alive out of the rubble of his house bombed by Israeli warplanes. Both are victims of the repeated & bloody Israeli aggressions on Gaza.
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Odd to boast about this, given you tried to shut down Tamil women speaking at a Tamil event to a Tamil MP about the interlinked nature of genocides against Tamil & Palestinian people
(eg in 2009, Israel supplied Sri Lanka with weapons used in war crimes)
Thank you to everyone who joined me and Councillor
@ParthiKandavel
for our Tamil Heritage Month event this afternoon. It was a wonderful celebration of the rich Tamil culture that can be found in Scarborough and throughout the City of Toronto.
Thank you to
@nirodance
and
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serious, non-rhetorical question:
how do you write about war, without turning into a trauma vulture? what ethics, what practices guide you in both the research and writing phases?
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